Importing packages to java classes

Question

I am at present trying to write a distributed system. To do this, I write an idl which creates a group of classes I need for communication between client and server and bundles them into a package. Within the same file as the package, I am trying to write a Servant class to manipulate classes contained in the package. The servant, at its most basic, looks like this
import UserManagerTest.*;
public class Servant extends _UserManagerImplBase{
When I try to compile this, the compiler returns two errors - that it can't find the UserManagerTest package and that it does not recognise the _UserManagerImplBase class.   The package resides in the same file as the Servant, so should it not be able to import it and use classes contained in it?   Any help is greatly appreciated,
Ian

Answer 1

The problem is your class path.
Most likely either you do not have it set at all or you are pointing at a child directory rather than the root directory.
The package resides in the same file as the Servant,Same file? You can't have two packages in the same file. And if you meant 'directory' then you might as well move it, because trying to keep two packages in the same directory, although possible, is more trouble than it is worth.